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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3090 tape driver ??(Re: BTN 2.0 Tape handler) (a bit long...)
Keywords: A3070, A3000, QIC, tape,
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Date: 23 Apr 91 17:53:42 GMT
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In article <5704@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> masaru@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Masaru Sugai) writes:
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>  A3070 150MB tape drive (C=)
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>As for data exchange with UNIX, I was successful to read out archived files
>from SUN4 this morning. We have HPs around at the lab, but they only gave
>me fault light :( 

Not sure about now, but HP's standard tape drives used to require
pre-formatted DC-600 tape cartridges & weren't compatible with Sun's.

Were these SCSI tape drives on the HP's?

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Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
                  "Duct Tape is like the Force...
It has a Light Side, a Dark Side, and it holds the Universe together"
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